Friday, January 09, 2015

Action Alert

A liberal activist sentenced to prison and flogging in Saudi Arabia
underwent the first round of 50 lashes in public after Friday prayers,
rights watchdog Amnesty International said.Raif Badawi, who set up the “Free Saudi Liberals”
website, was arrested in June 2012 and prosecuted for offences including
cyber crime and disobeying his father.The prosecution had demanded he be tried for apostasy,
which carries the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, but a judge dismissed
that charge.He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, a fine of 1
million Saudi riyals ($266,666) and 1,000 lashes last year after
prosecutors challenged an earlier sentence of seven years and 600 lashes
as too lenient.

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